Authors: Stephen King

Description: In the reality TV show The Running Man, the only objective is to stay alive. This “slam-bang action suspense” (Gilbert Cruz, Vulture) from Stephen King is now a major motion picture coming from Paramount on November 7, 2025. Ben Richards has no job, no money, and a young daughter who urgently needs medical attention. Desperate, out of options, he signs up for The Running Man, “the biggest show in the country.” It’s an ultraviolent competition where the stakes could not be higher. Ben must stay alive for thirty days while an elite strike force, trained to kill, hunts for him. If he can survive for a month, he wins a billion dollars. No contestant has ever lasted longer than eight days. Can Ben Richards win this ultimate game of life and death?

Langue: en

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Matthieu Rostac ,François Cau

Description: Les chiffres parlent pour lui : 350 millions d’ouvrages vendus depuis la publication de son premier roman en 1974, un corpus d'une cinquantaine de romans et deux cents nouvelles... Stephen King, c’est aussi plus de 80 transpositions de ses écrits sur grand et petit écrans à travers le monde, ce qui fait de lui l’auteur vivant le plus adapté. Son empreinte sur la pop culture, immense, indélébile, se manifeste à travers de multiples œuvres marquantes, du Carrie de Brian de Palma à la première saison de Mr Mercedes en passant par les chemins détournés du Shining de Stanley Kubrick. Ses excroissances télévisuelles (Les Vampires de Salem, « Il » est revenu...) ont traumatisé plusieurs générations. Les projections de ses tropes sous toutes leurs formes ont balisé notre façon d'appréhender le fantastique, l'horreur... comme le cinéma d'exploitation dans son ensemble, de la série B à la série Z. Pour écrire ce guide exhaustif, les deux auteurs ne se sont rien épargnés : les 4413 pages du cycle de la Tour Sombre, les 5 saisons de la série Haven, les 10 films de la saga des Enfants du Maïs, et même les 19 heures du soap opera indien vaguement inspiré de Ça. Qu’ils aiment ses livres, ses films, ou les deux, les fans de Stephen King trouveront dans ces pages la totalité des adaptations des romans de Stephen King, décortiquées et mises en rapport avec l’œuvre originale. UN MUST HAVE POUR TOUS LES FANS DU KING.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Hachette Heroes

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Philippe Paygnard

Description: « L’année des séries. Tome III » fait le point sur l’actualité des séries et vous en dit plus sur : Flash Gordon, Association de bienfaiteurs, Belphégor, Aux frontières du réel, Bouge-toi, Classe Mannequin, Kung Fu, la légende continue, Les filles d’à côté, Loïs et Clark, Raven, Robocop, Côte Ouest, Derrick, la création française, les nouveautés sur la BBC et aux USA, les séries animées, Steven Spielberg et le petit écran...

Langue: fr

Publisher: FeniXX

Categories: Social Science

Authors: John J. Han ,C. Clark Triplett ,Ashley G. Anthony

Description: Dystopian fiction captivates us by depicting future worlds at once eerily similar and shockingly foreign to our own. This collection of new essays presents some of the most recent scholarship on a genre whose popularity has surged dramatically since the 1990s. Contributors explore such novels as The Lord of the Flies, The Heart Goes Last, The Giver and The Strain Trilogy as social critique, revealing how they appeal to the same impulse as utopian fiction: the desire for an idealized yet illusory society in which evil is purged and justice prevails.

Langue: en

Publisher: McFarland

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Matthew B. Hill

Description: Dystopian States of America is a crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society-including ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental calamities, authoritarian governments, invasive technologies, and human weakness. Dystopian States of America provides students and researchers with an illuminating resource for understanding the impact and relevance of dystopian and apocalyptic works in contemporary American culture. Through its wide survey of dystopian works in numerous forms and genres, the book encourages readers to connect with these works of fiction and understand how the catastrophically grim or disquieting worlds they portray offer insights into our own current situation. In addition to providing more than 150 encyclopedia articles on a large and representative sample of dystopian/apocalyptic narratives in fiction, film, television, and video games (including popular works that often escape critical inquiry), Dystopian States of America features a suite of critical essays on five themes-war, pandemics, totalitarianism, environmental calamity, and technological overreach-that serve as the foundation for most dystopian worlds of the imagination. These offerings complement one another, enabling readers to explore dystopian conceptions of America and the world from multiple perspectives and vantage points.

Langue: en

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Categories: Social Science

Authors: Stephen King

Description: Premier quart du XXIe siècle. La dictature s'est installée aux États-Unis. La télévision, arme suprême du nouveau pouvoir, règne sans partage sur le peuple. Une chaîne unique diffuse une émission de jeux suivie par des millions de fans : c'est « La Grande Traque ». Ben Richards, un homme qui n'a plus rien à perdre, décide de s'engager dans la compétition mortelle. Pendant trente jours il devra fuir les redoutables « chasseurs » lancés sur sa piste et activement aidés par une population encouragée à la délation. Tous les moyens sont bons pour éliminer Ben Richards... Dans ce livre terrifiant, le maître incontesté du suspense, le grand écrivain américain Stephen King, alias Richard Bachman, nous fait vivre cette diabolique course contre la mort sans nous laisser un instant de répit. Fascinant.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Albin Michel

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Richard Bachman ,Stephen King

Description: It's not just a game when you're running for your life. Every night they tuned in to the nation's favourite prime-time TV game show. They all watched, from the sprawling slums to the security-obsessed enclaves of the rich. They all watched the ultimate live death game as the contestants tried to bet not the clock, but annihhilation at the hands of the Hunters. Survive thirty days and win the billion dollar jackpot - that was the promise. But the odds were brutal and the game rigged. Best score so far was eight days. And now there was a new contestant, the latest running man, staking his life while a nation watched.

Langue: en

Publisher: Hachette UK

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Jean-Claude Alizet

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Langue: fr

Publisher:

Categories: Detective and mystery stories

Authors: Bill Munster

Description: Dean Koontz started his career as a science fiction writer before he left the genre to ultimately become one of America's best-selling authors. In this volume, author Munster looks at Koontz's horror and dark suspense fiction.

Langue: en

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Categories: Reference

Authors: Charles Edward May ,Frank Northen Magill

Description: Profiles more than four hundred authors of short fiction from around the world, presenting biographical and bibliographic information and summaries of major works. Also includes a reference volume with a chronology; a bibliography; lists of major award winners; twenty-nine essays on short-fiction history, theory, and world cultures; and three indexes.

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Bryan Senn

Description: People hunting people for sport--an idea both shocking and fascinating. In 1924 Richard Connell published a short story that introduced this concept to the world, where it has remained ever since--as evidenced by the many big- and small-screen adaptations and inspirations. Since its publication, Connell's award-winning "The Most Dangerous Game" has been continuously anthologized and studied in classrooms throughout America. Raising questions about the nature of violence and cruelty, and the ethics of hunting for sport, the thrilling story spawned a new cinematic subgenre, beginning with RKO's 1932 production of The Most Dangerous Game, and continuing right up to today. This book examines in-depth all the cinematic adaptations of the iconic short story. Each film chapter has a synopsis, a "How Dangerous Is It?" critique, an overall analysis, a production history, and credits. Five additional chapters address direct to video, television, game shows, and almost "dangerous" productions. Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography and index are included.

Langue: en

Publisher: McFarland

Categories: Performing Arts

Authors: Heidi Strengell

Description: "Heidi Strengell shows that by tapping into the wellsprings of the gothic to reveal contemporary phobias, Stephen King invokes the abnormal and repressed sexuality of the vampire, the hubris of Frankenstein, the split identity of the werewolf, the domestic melodrama of the ghost tale. Drawing on myths and fairy tales, he creates characters who, like the heroic Roland the Gunslinger and the villainous Randall Flagg, may either reinforce or subvert the reader's childlike faith in society. And in a manner of the naturalist tradition, he reinforces a tension between the free will of the individual and the daunting hand of fate."--Jacket.

Langue: en

Publisher: Popular Press

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Stephen King

Description: Premier quart du XXIe siècle. La dictature s'est installée aux États-Unis. La télévision, arme suprême du nouveau pouvoir, règne sans partage sur le peuple. Une chaîne unique diffuse une émission de jeux suivie par des millions de fans : c'est " La Grande Traque ". Ben Richards, un homme qui n'a plus rien à perdre, décide de s'engager dans la compétition mortelle. Pendant trente jours il devra fuir les redoutables " chasseurs " lancés sur sa piste et activement aidés par une population encouragée à la délation. Tous les moyens sont bons pour éliminer Ben Richards... Dans ce livre terrifiant, le maître incontesté du suspense, le grand écrivain américain Stephen King, alias Richard Bachman, nous fait vivre cette diabolique course contre la mort sans nous laisser un instant de répit. Fascinant.

Langue: fr

Publisher: LGF/Le Livre de Poche

Categories:

Authors: René Arcos ,Paul Colin ,Léon Bazalgette ,Jean Guéhenno ,Dominique Braga ,Jean Cassou

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Langue: fr

Publisher:

Categories: Europe

Authors: Frank Northen Magill

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Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: American fiction

Authors: Sharon A. Russell

Description: Offers a critical introduction to the works of Stephen King, providing a brief biography and critical treatments of his eight most recent novels.

Langue: en

Publisher: Greenwood

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Claude Mesplède

Description: Dictionnaire des littératures policières à vocation encyclopédique proposant aussi bien des articles sur les thèmes caractéristiques du genre policier que sur les collections, les magazines, les auteurs (notices biobibliographiques), les personnages, etc.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Editions Joseph K

Categories: Detective and mystery stories

Authors: Leonard Maltin

Description: In addition to the more than 19,000 movie entries--300 new listings--Maltin has enlarged his indexes of leading performers and directors, updated the list of mail-order sources for buying and renting videocassettes and laser discs, and has continued to include the latest movie code ratings. Consumer rebate offer.

Langue: en

Publisher: Plume Books

Categories: Performing Arts

Authors: Leonard Maltin

Description: This number one bestselling movie guide is now better than ever! It has been the movie buff's indispensable reference source for 27 years. With a new revision every year, it's the most complete and up-to-date guide of its kind. From box-office smashes to cult classics to forgettable bombs, this guide has it all.

Langue: en

Publisher: Signet Book

Categories: Performing Arts

Authors: Leonard Maltin

Description: For nearly 30 years, Leonard Maltin's "Movie & Video Guide" has been the movie buff's indispensable reference source. With a new revision every year, it's the most up-to-date and complete handbook of its kind! From box-office hits to cult classics to the biggest bombs, this guide has it all!

Langue: en

Publisher: Signet Book

Categories: Performing Arts